More than 100 survivors have been pulled out of a Chinese coal mine more than a week after they were trapped by an underground flood.
Officials said earlier they believed at least 95 workers were still alive underground, in what state media hailed as a miracle rescue.
A total of 153 workers had been trapped in the state-owned Wangjialing mine in Shanxi since it flooded during construction work on March 28.
The accident has been blamed on lax safety standards.
Television images showed survivors being brought out of the mine pit one after another, strapped to stretchers and wrapped in green blankets.
Towels covered their eyes and blackened faces to protect them from lights after so long underground.
State media broadcasting live from the mine put the number of of survivors so far brought above ground at 114.
Groups of rescue workers wearing blue and orange jumpsuits loaded them into waiting ambulances.
One tearful rescuer said: “I have not slept for several days. Our efforts have not been in vain.”
Many of the survivors were dehydrated, suffering from hypothermia and doctors also feared gas poisoning from the bad air in the shaft.
The miners also had skin infections from being in the water so long and some were in shock and had low blood pressure.
At least 3,000 rescuers had been racing against time to pump water out of the mine after it flooded in the latest accident.
According to official statistics, 2,631 coal miners were killed last year in China.
